Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Disaster strikes the big top!

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

When?

Buckles said...

No date included with the article.

B.E.Trumble said...

I hate when that happens. It's a real mess when a hippo has to pass something like that.

Anonymous said...

Please pass the dwarf

Anonymous said...

Do you guys really think we are going to bite on this one?

Anonymous said...

They should have said Midget. They are smaller then Dwarfs. You know you will hear about this one.

TheShaz said...

OK - Hate to burst the bubble. I did some checking and on a popular Urban Legend site I found this.

Hippo Eats dwarf

Anonymous said...

As the Web Master speaks in the mouth of "Anna May"

Buckles said...

On a similar note, when we were with Kelly-Miller in 1950 D.R. had built a clown car and like everything else it was constructed out of solid iron.
The driver in the back would drop cherry bombs thru a tube. One day the inevitable happened, he missed the tube and it went off right under his legs. Not only was he severely burned but the bomb consumed all the oxygen in the tiny compartment.
I was a candy butcher and was passing thru the back yard with a tray of Cokes and noticed the ambulance and a crowd of people gathered around. The elephants were lined up for the act so I asked Freddy and Smokey what had happened and as I was walking away I overheard my dad say "Well, he finally got a laugh",

B.E.Trumble said...

Part of what made this story particularly funny today -- or maybe it reflects my own twisted humor -- is that I'd seen a CNN story on a Seattle doctor who managed to get devoured by a Nile Croc in Botswana last weekend. The guides had just finished warning him to beware of hippos. Croc took him right out of the canoe. Happened on the Limpopo River. I'm pretty sure the "great, grey-green, greasy Limpopo River" is where Kipling said "the elephant got its trunk" courtesy of another croc.

Anonymous said...

urban legend or not, still made for a great laugh.

Anonymous said...

I think this a terrific piece despite fact that whoever sent it to you needs their medications adjusted...Paul

Anonymous said...

Must have been Gary Hill!!

Anonymous said...

By medication, did you mean Rolaids?

Anonymous said...

X-LAX is more like it. They used Castor Oil on Buckles.

GaryHill said...

Can't take credit for it! I'm still having to run down to my brothers house to check in on y'all! The guy fixing my puter had to work at another shop this week so he says it will be next week before I get it back!!!!I am lurking about in cyberspace so I don't miss too much. I don't want to have to wait to read it all that I've missed so I steal time on bro's puter! Later gators!